From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: josh+gnu@nispio.net, 18739@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18739: 24.3; Request for a hook to be provided when scrolling will move the cursor
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:44:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwviojktapv.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r3y84iuv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:41:12 +0300")
>> >> It would be helpful to have a hook that would be called before any
>> >> scrolling command moves the cursor. In other words, I want to be
>> >> notified when an update to the display will force the location of
>> >> `point' to change in the current buffer.
>> > What's wrong with window-scroll-functions?
>> But these are also called when point is not affected, right?
> Yes. But it's easy to detect that situation, I think.
Is it?
I think the main reason why I ask is because I truly have no idea when
window-scroll-functions is called. You seem to be somewhat familiar
with it, so could you try and clarify it in the docstring?
Currently I see "List of functions to call before redisplaying a window
with scrolling" and "Note that these functions are also called by
`set-window-buffer'".
Here are some of the questions this brings up for me:
- is it called during set-window-buffer itself, or is it called in the
first redisplay after set-window-buffer?
- what means "redisplaying a window with scrolling" exactly? Does it
mean "redisplay with a different window-start then during the last
redisplay"? Does that include the case where window-start is changed
so as to follow point or is it only the cases where window-start was
changed explicitly by a scrolling command?
- how could a window-scroll-function distinguish the 3 cases:
"set-window-buffer", "used a scroll command", "moved point out of viewport".
I tried already a few times to understand window-scroll-functions, but
so far it has eluded me. FWIW, I found 3 kinds of uses:
- A crutch from when jit-lock didn't exist (in linum and lazy-lock).
- A way to try and keep a window fully empty showing only point-max by
calling set-window-start with the same window-start (in follow-mode).
Not clear exactly why this should work, and arguably goes against the
warning in window-scroll-functions's docstring.
- Do fancy auto-scrolling in eshell/em-smart (which does exactly what
window-scroll-functions's docstring warns not to do, AFAICT), calling
redisplay internally.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-16 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-15 18:51 bug#18739: 24.3; Request for a hook to be provided when scrolling will move the cursor Josh
2014-10-15 20:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-15 21:01 ` Josh
2014-10-15 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-15 21:12 ` Josh Hunsaker
2014-10-15 21:27 ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-10-16 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 7:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-16 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 7:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-16 7:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-15 22:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-16 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 13:44 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-10-16 13:53 ` Josh
2014-10-16 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 14:35 ` Josh
2014-10-16 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 14:58 ` Josh
2014-10-16 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-27 18:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-16 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 15:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-16 15:32 ` Josh
2014-10-16 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 19:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-16 20:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-16 21:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-17 6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-17 13:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-17 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-17 17:02 ` Stefan Monnier
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